The legend behind the loci method is that the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos survived a building collapse that killed all others in attendance. When officials tried to identify the victims, Simonides was the only person who could help them, because he remembered who the victims were based on where they were standing at the time of the collapse. In the process, Simonides created a memory tool that is as effective today as it was in 500 B.C.
Loci is the plural version of the word locus, which means “a particular point or place.” The loci method, then, is a memory tool that aligns the things you want to remember with specific points or places that you know well.
The Parts of a Poet (Şairin Parçaları)
Bir parçam toprağa
mıhlı, bir parçam
şarkı oyuyor, bir parçam
suya yayılıyor,
bir parçam gökkuşağından
bir köprü oluşturuyor, bir parçam
kum kertenkelesinin peşinden gidiyor, bir parçam
yargılayan bir kadın.
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The perception of space was much affected by the introduction of two European devices for improving vision -reading glasses and telescopes. The first are attested as early as fifteenth century and as far east Iran, where the poet Jami, lamenting the infirmities of old age, remarks that his eyes were now useless 'unless, with aid of Frankish glasses, the two become four.'
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There lies a green field between the scholar and the poet; should the scholar cross it he becomes a wise man; should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet.
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II. the damsel
''who would
i have
been without
the inspiration
behind my
demons?
-probably not a poet.''
